AID grant to the Rand Corporation for a research program entitled the family in economic development -- promoting growth through people

Four major and three minor research subprojects will be conducted in collaboration with developing country personnel (as either full participants or student assistants). Topics will include: (1) the impact of nutrition, health, and family planning interventions on contraceptive use, breastfeeding, and fertility; (2) cross-cultural differences in the effects of weaning patterns on infant and child mortality, morbidity, and growth; (3) time allocation among rural and agricultural households; (4) the role of informal and institutional credit in smallholder agriculture; (5) schooling policies, income growth, and income distribution; (6) the determinants and consequences of internal migration; and (7) the effects of economic growth on male earnings. Rand will also provide financial and intellectual support to LDC graduate students enrolled at U.S. institutions for up to one year during the dissertation phase of their studies. Visiting scholars programs of 3-6 months or longer and a short-term visitors program for subproject collaborators will also be implemented. To disseminate policy and program implications of the research, formal policy briefings for decisionmakers and research seminars aimed at technical staff will be conducted both in A.I.D./W and in developing countries.